Bottle-stopper



No. 6l4,828. Patented N661. 29, I898.

L. H. BBDUME. BOTTLE STUPPEB.

(Application filed Feb. 21, 1898.)

(No Model.)

NITED. STATES PATENT Fries.

LEWIS ll. BROOME, OF JERSEY CITY, NEIV JERSEY.

- BOTTLE-*STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,828, dated November 29, ,1898.

Application filed February 21, 1898. Serial No. 671,012. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS II. BROOME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

Bottles have heretofore been made with a fiat upper end and with L-shaped grooves or slots in the outer sides of the neck to receive the ends of wires connected with the cover or stopper, and devices of this character have been extensively employed in bottles for holding milk and cream.

The present invention is for simplifying the construction of the sheet-metal cover and the wires for connecting the same with the bottle, whereby a uniform elasticity is obtained in the sheet-metal cover for pressing upon the mouth of the bottle or upon an intervening piece of paper that is usually employed for rendering the bottle sufficiently tight for the transportation of the contained liquid.

In my present invention the sheet-metal cover is cut out of a circular shape and the edges turned up to form a surrounding rim, the connecting wires are bent of semicircular shape, each wire having a projecting rightangled end to engage the L-shaped slot in the bottle, and the edges of the sheet metal are folded over toinclose the semicircular portions of the wire. In this manner the rim or edge of the cover is stiffened by the inclosed wires and the same is substantially uniform all around, although the two parts of the wire go to make up the wired rim of such cover, and the parts are sufficiently elastic to spring and cause a tight fit between the cap and the mouth of the bottle when the right-angled ends of the wires are turned into the horizontal portions of the L-shaped slots, and there is sufficient spring in the wires for allowing the stopper to be turned aside for emptying the contents of the bottle and also for allowing the stopper to be easily disconnected from the bottle whenever desired for cleansing the same.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section showing the neck of the bottle and the cover applied to the same. Fig. 2 is a perare the L-shaped slots 2, (shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and the upper end of the bottle around the mouth is flat or substantially so, and it is sometimes rendered true by grinding. Bottles of this character are well known.

The cover is composed of a sheet-metal disk B of sufficient size for the edges to be turned up as a rim, as shown in Fig. 3, and the two wires 0 O are made with semicircular portions 3 to fit around closely within the sheetmetal rim of the cover, so that such sheet metal is turned over, as shown at 4, to inclose the wires, and the wires form a wire rim all the way around the cover, and each wire is formed at one end with a right-angle portion 5, that is substantially perpendicular to the surface of the cover B, and with inwardlyprojecting ends 6, that are in line with each other and adapted to pass into the slots 2 in the exterior of the bottle-neck, and the distance between the inwardly-bent portions 6 of the Wires 0 O and the under surface of the cover B corresponds to the measurements of the bottle, so that when the portions 6 of the wires are turned into the horizontal portions of the L-shaped slots the cover is held tightly upon the neck of the bottle.

It will be understood that the right-angle portions 5 of the Wires 0 0 come closely adjacent to the ends of the semicircular portions of the opposite wires, so that the rim of the cover is filled With the wire all around and substantially uniformly, and solder may be employed around inside the cover to connect the rolled-over edges of the metal at the inner surface of the cover, or the cover when otherwise completed may be immersed in molten metal, so that the same will run in and fill the interstices between the wires and the sheet metal. sheet-metal cover is of substantially uniform strength and size all around its edges, and the right-angle portions of the wires are adapted to spring sufficiently for insertion in the In either instance the slots 2 or withdrawal from such slots, and the entire cover is kept in a perfectly clean and sanitary condition with facility.

I claim as my invention The bottle-cover composed of a sheet metal disk and two Wires, each having a semicircular portion inclosed in the rolled-over edges of the disk, and with right-angle portions at one end of each Wire adapted to pass into and engage the slots of the bottle-neck, substan- 1o tially as set forth.

Signed by me this 9th day of February, 1898.

L. II. BROOME. \Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, E. E. POI-ILE. 

